Plot a phase space diagram of radio transients using Python. For a C implementation of the code, see Evan Keane's repository.
Plot design is motivated by Figure 1 of Cordes et al. (2004) and Figure 5 of Pietka et al. (2015).
In the above figure, colored markers indicate various source classes. The uncertainty principle (gray shaded box) restricts radio transient discovery at
Plotted data for different source classes are available as .csv
files under the Data
directory of this repository.
Presently, we take data points from the following papers and the references therein.
- Pietka et al. (2015) (see Figure 5)
- Nimmo et al. (2022) (see Figure 3)
- Hurley-Walker et al. (2022) (see Figure 4)
- Caleb et al. (2022) (see Table 1)
Execute the following steps in sequence, provided you have a working Python3 installation including the numpy
, matplotlib
and astropy
packages.
git clone [email protected]:akshaysuresh1/rtps.git
cd rtps
python rtps.py
Please submit an issue to voice any problems or requests. Assistance with keeping data up-to-date is greatly appreciated.